Hi, keithwjones <ke...@worlebury.co.uk> writes:
> I was a long time Quicken XG 2004 user but in Win 10 it would not add new > vendors. So the time was right for a change. > > I had GnuCash in my sights for sometime so started to use it - 2.6.18. > Always helps to read manual before you start, all up and runnning smooothly. > I was manually adding bills and paying them and issuing invoices. > > Thought I would try scheduled transactions, never did in Quicken. First > attempt I had a payment but no bill. So I created two entries a bill and a > payment. This appears to work fine with entries in AP, general ledger, money > taken from bank account and an entry in expenses. Do I need two separate > entries? > > Entering each one manually I get a bill number from the system but when I do > it by schedule no bill number is created. Am I missing something or is this > how the sytem works? You cannot schedule bills or invoices. When you try what happens is that is gets based on the original transaction but misses all the Bill/Invoice metadata that gets created through the Business features. Doing it this way will also cause the business reports to fail, because the metadata will be missing. > I am impressed with the way GnuCash works, thank you to all those involved. > > Keith > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. -derek -- Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board (SIPB) URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/ PP-ASEL-IA N1NWH warl...@mit.edu PGP key available _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.